What You Need to Know about Roman Storm’s Tornado Cash Trial
https://cointelegraph.com/news/roman-storm-tornado-cash-trial-what-need-know
New book: Finance Aesthetics. A Critical Glossary
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/finance-aesthetics/
Interview with Jacob Silverman
https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/jsilverman6-25/
Yancey Strickler: Forget Hustle Culture – Behold the Artist Corporation (back to the MoneyLab origins)
https://www.ted.com/talks/yancey_strickler_forget_hustle_culture_behold_the_artist_corporation
Defendants Charged in Conspiracy for over $263 Million Crypto Thefts, Money Laundering, Home Break-Ins
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/additional-12-defendants-charged-rico-conspiracy-over-263-million-cryptocurrency-thefts
DOJ seizes record $225 million in crypto tied to global ‘pig butchering’ scams
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/doj-seizes-record-225-million-crypto-tied-global-pig-butchering-scams-rcna213790
Defusing the Stablecoin Time Bomb by Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/private-stablecoins-are-a-formula-for-financial-crisis-by-yanis-varoufakis-2025-07
Fake Gaming and AI Firms Push Malware on Cryptocurrency Users via Telegram and Discord
https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/fake-gaming-and-ai-firms-push-malware.html
Crypto Scammer Nicholas Truglia Sentenced to Additional 12 years
https://www.theblock.co/post/362098/convicted-crypto-scammer-nicholas-truglia-sentenced-to-additional-12-years-in-prison-for-failing-to-pay-20-million-restitution-report
Must Watch: Big Crypto’s Assault on Democracy – Episode of The Nerd Reich Podcast
https://www.thenerdreich.com/big-cryptos-assault-on-democracy/
A not so ordinary crypto theft – the wave of French crypto kipnappings
https://cointelegraph.com/explained/how-a-243-million-crypto-heist-led-to-a-real-world-kidnapping
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/father-of-crypto-entrepreneur-rescued-from-kidnappers-after-having-finger-severed/ar-AA1E9qoJ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/crypto-kidnappings-on-the-rise-as-criminals-resort-to-wrench-attacks/ar-AA1FNZ6n
Rise of the Crypto Keepers
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/crypto-trump-money-in-politics/
Germany Shuts Down eXch Over $1.9B Laundering
https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/germany-shuts-down-exch-over-19b.html
Argentina President Shuts Down Libra Crypto Scandal Investigation
https://watcher.guru/news/argentina-president-shuts-down-libra-crypto-scandal-investigation
Who Attended Trump’s Memecoin Dinner
https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-attended-trumps-controversial-memecoin-dinner
AIWS and AI-driven Banking
https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/aiws-house/aiws-bank-and-finance-ecosystem-model-a-historic-milestone-in-ai-driven-banking/
Is every memecoin a scam? (via Patrice Riemens/nettime)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/30/is-memecoin-scam-crypto-trump
“When bad actors use good code” – The case of Tornado Cash the the Roman Storm Arrest
https://freeromanstorm.com/#fightStory
Trump Media buys Billions in Crypto
https://gizmodo.com/trump-media-to-buy-2-5-billion-in-crypto-to-create-bitcoin-treasury-2000607695
Events at the Bitcoin 2025 convention
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-crypto-complicates-las-vegas-wedding-between-maga-and-bitcoin/ar-AA1FPOmD
Code word freedom at Bitcoin 2025
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-2025-event-recap-freedom
Ross Ulbricht thanks Trump, praises decentralization at Bitcoin 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZGRA-8ZMU
Bitcoin in El Salvador: The Perils of Authoritarian Governance (via Syllabus)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1866802X251316902
How North Korea Cheated Its Way to Crypto Billions
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-cryptocurrency-580d7d3f
The Lens App Factory
https://fountain.ink/p/jeanayala/2qnpeafj8nry9nvg9t3
King Bob, alleged member of the “Scattered Spider” crypto thief group, plead guilty to all charges
https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/who-is-king-bob-notorious-music-leaker-pleads-guilty-for-identity-theft-for-federal-cases-of-800-000/ar-AA1Ckoyn
Crypto-Angels
https://www.trevorjonesart.com/cryptoangels/
Jason Bailey: The NFT Apocalypse
https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/the-nft-apocalypse
Justice Department scraps crypto unit as Trump further loosens oversight of digital assets
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/04/08/doj-ncet-disbands-memo-todd-blanche-trump/
Milk Road on Bitcoin’s Pet Rock Problem
https://themilkroad.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-s-pet-rock-problem?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_organic
About the Bitcoin Policy Institute
https://www.btcpolicy.org/research
BreadCon Berlin June 21-22, 2025: Reimagining Crypto Beyond Capitalism
https://dandelion.events/e/breadcon2025
NYT about Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html
Elon Musk on March 30, 2025: “End the fed! Oh, yeah, I always wanted to say that. I think there are 20,000 people who work at the fed. Why do we have so many people at the fed and what do they do?”
Tucker Carlson’s (iIllegal) interview with Sam Bankman-Fried From Prison
https://watcher.guru/news/tucker-carlson-interviews-sam-bankman-fried-from-prison?c=572
Old Utopias, New Tax Havens: The Politics of Bitcoin in Historical PerspectiveThe Politics of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335300217_Old_Utopias_New_Tax_Havens_The_Politics_of_Bitcoin_in_Historical_PerspectiveThe_Politics_of_Bitcoin_in_Historical_Perspective (via E. de Jong)
Pause the Blockchain Legal Revolution
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3439918 (via E. de Jong)
U.S. Secret Service Seizes Russian Garantex Crypto Exchange Website
https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/us-secret-service-seizes-russian.html
“Crypto is astrology for men who’ve never had a real job.” Adie Wagenknecht
Response of EU/ECB on Trump’s Crypto Reserve Plan
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-support-crypto-hurt-europe-monetary-autonomy-top-eu-official
Cohen, Julie E., Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia (February 28, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5171050 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5171050 (via Donatella Della Ratta)
Musk bewilders with tales of ‘magic money computers’ that make cash ‘out of thin air’
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/musk-bewilders-with-tales-of-magic-money-computers-that-make-cash-out-of-thin-air/ar-AA1B6eDV
Farewell to Westphalia. Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance. By Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Crypto_Sovereignty_and_Post-Nation-State_Governance
https://logos.co/farewell-to-westphalia/
“Believers don’t check prices. Believers don’t flinch. Believers don’t fold. They see the inevitable before anyone else.” SPX6900
Economic Space Agency in the lower case: https://news.ecsa.io/toward-economic-space-agency-in-the-lowercase/
Lene Vollhardt’s Swirls of Fortune https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:1?tab=info